Red Cross To Honor Local Heroes

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The American Red Cross of Northern New York will honor 17 northern New Yorkers for their heroic actions during the past year at the Real Heroes Breakfast.

The event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Wednesday, February 5 at Samaritan Summit Village in Watertown.

The Real Heroes Breakfast recognizes people from throughout Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Lewis counties who performed heroic acts in life-threatening situations.

Among this year's honorees: A Spanish teacher and mother of three who donated one of her kidneys to a former student; a woman who performed CPR on her 5-year-old son; and a 13-year-old girl who saved her 2-year-old cousin from drowning.